Writing Contest Winners!
Small Wars Journal and Divergent Options ran a Writing Contest from March 1, 2019 to May 31, 2019 and as of this writing all of the entries we received have been published. On behalf of the Divergent Options Team of myself (Phil Walter), Steve Leonard, and Bob Hein, and also on behalf of Dave Dilegge of Small Wars Journal, we want to thank all of our writers who entered the contest. Not only was it a joy to read what you wrote, but for me personally, it is always an emotional event to see how Divergent Options has grown from a random idea scribbled in one of my notebooks to what it is today. Divergent Options would not be what it is without our writers, and for that I am eternally grateful. All writings related to this contest can be found by clicking here, and the awards are as follows:
First Place $500: Heather Venable – “Turning ‘Small’ Wars into ‘Big’ Wars: How Tacticians Endanger Us All”
Second Place $300: Ekene Lionel – “Assessment of the Existential Threat Posed by a United Biafran and Ambazonian Separatist Front in West Africa”
Third Place $200: Naiomi Gonzalez – “An Assessment of the Private Military Industry and its Role in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars”
Honorable Mention $100: Scott Harr – “Assessment of the Impacts of Saudi Arabia’s Vision2030 on U.S. Efforts to Confront Iran”
Honorable Mention $100: Gregory Olsen – “Assessment of the Efficacy of the French Military Intervention in the Northern Mali Conflict”
Honorable Mention $100: Sam Canter – “An Assessment of Population Relocation in 21st Century Counterinsurgencies”
Honorable Mention $100: Samuel T. Lair – “Assessing the Jefferson Administration’s Actions During the First Barbary Wars and their Impact on U.S. Small War Policy”
Honorable Mention $100: Edwin Tran – “Assessment of U.S. Strategic Goals Through Peacekeeping Operations in the 1982 Intervention of Lebanon”
About the Author(s)
Phil Walter is the founder of Divergent Options. Phil has served in the infantry, the United States Intelligence Community, and in strategy, policy, and program analyst roles. All of his written works and podcasts, which do not contain information of an official nature, can be found at www.philwalter1058.com.
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